I make large assemblages by the repetition of simple, geometric, found industrial elements in a variety of patterns and rhythms. This approach is rooted in my early apprenticeship with minimalist environmental artists in Lower Manhattan in the 1970’s that led to a 30 year career as an architect and teacher.

Architecture is, after all, built by the assembly of repeated or similar components. However, I want to articulate them as a continuous and fluid “plastic form”, something organic and alive. So, while working with simple elements, in the manner of modern minimalism, my inspirations are gothic, romanesque, baroque and art nouveau idioms and their complex visual syntax. I am fascinated by the way those decorative/tectonic styles reveal their own internal logic and I seek out cues in my materials for applying that logic to the simple shapes of the elements I grab from everyday industry.